The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-11
TRIED TO INvERvIEw CoNKLING.
Amusing Attempt of a Reporter to
Pump the Famous Lawyer.


Pump the Famous Lawyer.
A dispatch from Chicago to the New York
World says: Roscoe Conkling arrived here
to-day. In regard to the report that he was
to make speech at the Grant Club Thurs
day evening, he said:
II shall not make speech to the club.
was invited to visit the club as a guest, and
was distinctly told that no addresses would
be made | certainly shall not speak. | am
here on legal business The conversation
turned upon Henry George and his theo-
ries, and Mr.. Conkling interviewed the in
terviewer about the doctrines of the new
party. ..'....,......
THE United Labor party will probably
be an important factor in the next Presi-
dental election, will it not" inquired the
reporter
docs the Labor party intend to run a
candidate for the Presidency" Mr.. Conk-
ling asked
THAT is the understanding.
"'Who will it nameln
Probably Henry George"
well, that of course, will show how far
his land doctrines are received. | ask you
the question about Henry George and his
party because l am ignorant | do not pre-
tend to be posted about them. The law is a
jealous mistress, and in this country, so vast
and wide, if an attorney attends to the calls
of his profession he will find that his waking
hours are too much taken up with his bust
ness to allow him to devote much attention
to anything else. In England, which leav-
ing out Wales, is about the size of New
York State, a man can be in the House of
Commons and still can practice law. But in
America, where a New York LAWYER is eX-
pected to do business not only in the many
courts of that State, but in the neighboring
States, and even in Illinois, Missouri and
California, it is simply out of the question
for lawyer to NEEDLE with politics or any
thing else For many years l ignored this.
to the injury of my practice, but | aSsidu-
ously refrain from attending to anything
else but my business now"
"Mr Blaine will probably attempt the
Presidential race once morem said the
reporter.
ConlIl1ng
SIS his health good enough to carry him
through, do you thinkln
81 see no reason why it should not be. He
is about So or 81, should say, but few
years older than l, and ought to be good for
fifteen or twenty years more of active life.
But why do you ask me about politics! |
do not know what the policy of the Repub-
lican leaders is. Ask those who are in the
swim. | rarely see the men who have the
super NlSlDII anu uIIGCJlOu VI JIG party.
When l see them haven't the time to find
out the status of affairs and very likely
they would not tell me, anyhow OF course
| have my ideas about the way things are
going, but they are old-fashioned ideas, and,
perhaps, not worth backing However,
there is this that ought to be remembered:
| can only hope that in the end all will
come out well. One of the greatest proofs
Of the divinity and authenticity of the
Christian religion is its survival Of hypoc-
risy within and the attacks upon its faith
from without. So the strongest surety that
our government will endure is, that no mat
ter whether an administration makes griev-
Gus blunders, as we sometimes think, all the
losses are made up and disappear in the
grand avalanche of prosperity But why
do you ask me about politics. 1t would be
immodest for me to attempt to talk about
matters i'll business of which | know moth
ing. 1t is as though | should give long
talk about the manufacture of glucose, when
there are hundreds of men who know a
thousand times as much as | do about it,